The former Mayor of Monrovia, Jefferson T. Koijee, has called on the Muslim community to remember to raise their hands in fervent prayer against the “malicious” nature of the Boakai and Koung regime—a regime under whose rule, for the first time in the country’s history, “the houses of Allah, the mosques, are being mercilessly destroyed and demolished”.
As Muslims in Liberia and across the world commence fasting and prayer, Koijee called on the Muslims to pause and reflect upon these sacred days, days not only of hunger and thirst, but of spiritual awakening, moral courage, and divine justice.
“Our revered religious leaders and Imams, the bearers of truth and peace, have been disgracefully brutalized by state security forces. After ten faithful years of providing their own security to protect their communities during these deeply spiritual times, the Muslim people now face a deliberate injustice as the Boakai and Koung regime has ordered the Ministry of Justice to strip the Muslim community of the natural law of self-defense, a law written not by man but by nature itself,” Koijee observed.
According to Koijee, darkness never conquers those whose faith is anchored in Allah. “Let the Boakai and Koung regime understand every demolished mosque becomes a testimony, every beaten Imam becomes a symbol, and every act of persecution becomes a seed of resistance growing in the hearts of the faithful.
“Let us therefore pray with unwavering hearts that Allah Almighty will hear the cries of the oppressed, grant their prayers, and bring forth His divine intervention preventing further destruction and ushering in the long-awaited redemption.
“For every tear shed in silence shall echo in judgement, and every prayer whispered in pain shall rise in power against tyranny,” Koijee further observed.
